decedent
IPA: dɛsˈidʌnt
noun
- (law, chiefly US) A dead person.
adjective
- Removing; departing; deceased.
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Examples of "decedent" in Sentences
- No doubt he's Genghis Khan's decedent.
- The executor marshals the decedent's assets.
- Claims to be decedent of ninja Sandayu Momoichi.
- The decedent should keep the original in safekeeping.
- Control by the decedent of the details of the funeral.
- I'm a decedent of a person with a biograph onWikipedia.
- If the decedent was a member of the laity their feet face the altar.
- If the decedent was a member of the clergy the head faces the altar.
- Such a sale and division may also be mandated in the will of the decedent.
- The Supreme Court has ruled that the income of a decedent's estate is taxable.
- The decedent is not affected at all by the estate tax — only his or her heirs!
- The applicable timeline for the treatment rendered to the decedent is as follows:
- The decedent was a patient at the Central Islip State Hospital where he was initially admitted on November 22, 1970.
- Required minimum distributions for the year of the IRA owner's death but unpaid at the time of death will be referred to as the decedent's unpaid distribution.
- This theory is bolstered by the fact that the skeletal remains of the head indicated that the decedent was apparently greatly surprised for some unknown reason.
- The stipulation that the decedent was aware of the well - publicized health risks of cigarettes merely places him in the same position as the ordinary consumer or potential consumer of cigarettes.
- Rudd said people now can type in a name to find out if a case has been filed for a particular person — known as a decedent — or conduct more general searches on which cases were filed in a given month.
- Is the defense of self defense available for a killing that occurred when both the defendant and the decedent were engaged in an attempt to traffic in cocaine and the decedent was the first to use deadly force?
- What about the fact that the only cultures in the past that have been very open about sex – the word decedent comes to mind – were gigantic empires spiraling their way down into destruction – such as Babylon and Rome.